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CS Colloquium - Ming Lin "Fast Proximity Queries for Motion Planning and Dynamic Simulation"

CS Colloquium - Ming Lin "Fast Proximity Queries for Motion Planning and Dynamic Simulation"

Mon. 09/06 | 1:00PM - Thu. 09/30 | 2:00PM @ Rice University (map)

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MingC.LinJohn R. & Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CS Colloquium - Ming Lin "Fast Proximity Queries for Motion Planning and Dynamic Simulation"
Monday, September 6, 2010 -Thursday, September 30, 2010
1:00 PM
to2:00 PM
251 Mechanical Engineering Building
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston, Texas, USA
Proximity queries, i.e. distance computations and closely related collision detection problems, are ubiquitous in robotics, design automation, manufacturing, assembly and virtual prototyping. The set of tasks include motion planning, sensor-based planning, assembly and disassembly planning, tolerance verification, maintainability study, simulation-based design, and ergonomic analysis. In this talk, I will survey a few recent advances in collision queries and proximity computations. I will present several new algorithms and software systems for these problems. In particular, I will describe complementary approaches for collision detection between deformable bodies and geometric models with high complexity and details. I will further highlight the design of scalable algorithms for these problems by taking advantages of parallelism available on emerging commodity hardware, such as graphics processor units (GPUs) and many-core architectures. I demonstrate the applications of these techniques on cloth simulation, liver chemoembolization, character animation, and haptic rendering. I will conclude by discussing our experiences and some future research directions.
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